I can't believe you all haven't done this yet. Whadya' get?
Me:
Bottle of perfume and some $$ from mom.
Yarn ball winder and swift from DH.
Hand spun, hand dyed, BANANA SILK yarn from my sister (woot!).
Lighted vanity mirror from Glad (oh, yes I did).
Spill it, women. I want to know about all of your goodies.
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external hard drive and bamboo cutting board from dh
money from dad, aunts and uncles
our car loan from my parents forgiven(!)
no new sewing machine:(
Wii Fit Plus from my brother
Nice sized Visa gift card, honey cinnamon almonds, and a pink wireless mouse from my parents
(only did stocking stuffers with DH this year) Dutch Bros gift card, warm socks with anti-slip grippes (my request), lip balm, some candy, etc. from DH
Hickory Farms box and some chocolates from my uncle and aunt
Shoes and lip balm from myself
Mom is doing FANTASTIC. Thank you so much for asking. She had an amazing time today. I was so proud of her. She was filled with energy, and made our day joyous.
Bummer about the sewing machine, but WOW-YAY-WOOT for the car loan!
$150 from grandparents,
$50 gift card to Old Navy.
$50 gift card to Gap.
Long sleeved shirt from Old Navy.
Warm fleece pants from Old Navy.
Handmade coasters.
Scrapbook.
Dirty Dancing blu-ray. :P
Lindt Lindor chocolate truffles.
Earth Therapeutics moisturizing gloves and socks.
Scarf and matching beret.
Bread maker from my sis
food processor from my mom
Garmin from DH
that's great news. i'm glad she had a nice christmas!
and yeah, it's nice not to worry about the car loan anymore!
Gonna need to see a PIP of this.
From parents:
Mandoline
Very high quality vanilla extract
Some notepads and journals
$$$
From my sister, a night of babysitting, including cooking dinner, bath and bed, so we can go out to do whatever we want.
My other sister and I didn't exchange gifts so we could put more into gifts for each other's kids.
Nothing from DH, but for Hanukkah he gave me:
Williams Sonoma GC
Crate and Barrel GC
Starbucks GC
Necklace and Earrings that the boys helped him pick out
(DH got a Soda Stream from me, which is really for me too, lol!)
My Three Sons
#1: 2.06 #2: 1.08 #3: 9.10
DS #3 diagnosed at birth with panhypopituitarism - lack of pituitary function. He is treated with thyroxine, hydrocortisone, growth hormone and testosterone.
I'm new on this board but I'll post :-) DH and I only did stockings this morning after purchasing a joint gift of a new camera a few weeks ago. MIL and GMIL go crazy each year, and I'm sure I'll miss a few items - I received a new scarf, a small cheese knife and relish fork, a GC for a 1-hour massage, a table runner from Finland, a maternity shirt, a beater/attachment for my Kitchenaid mixer that eliminates the need for scraping down the sides of the bowl, a book I specifically asked for, and probably 4-5 things I'm forgetting. Whew!
A giant handmade card from DH (we're talkin' 3 feet tall) - my fave gift from him. A handmade wooden bracelet with nice inlays from DH - also great.
Various other things....but best of all -
A brand new flat screen TV from FIL - WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!
We're watching Jule & Julia on it right now!
Me: (from DH unless otherwise mentioned)
Kitchen Aid Blender (Looks like the one that needs a repair is on it's way to be listed on CL)
2 Dead Sea Bathe Salts (white grapefruit & bergamont and lavendar orange)
Yorkshire Castle Black Tea
Rose of India Chai Tea
Kiwi Kaleidoscope Herb Tea
Chai Spice Tea
Peaceful Frog Poa Zhong Oolong Tea
Mountain Magnolia Oolong Tea
Cranberry Apple Herb Tea
Stash brand White Tea (SIL)
Stash brand Holiday Chai Tea (SIL)
Lindt White Chocolate Truffle Bar (SIL)
Lindt Lindor Wjite Chocolate Truffles (SIL)
Bath & Bodyworks Gift Basket (SIL)
Lucky You Lucky Brand Body Mist
Khol's Giftcard (FIL)
Wal-Mart Giftcard (Grandma)
Sweater & Cami (MIL)
USAF Sweatshirt (FIL)
Slippers (MIL)
Something Naughty
Clay Poy (Xavian)
Ornaments (Xavian & Korra)
Cricut Travel Case
Cricut 24" Cutting Mat Set
5 Skeins of Rowan Kidsilk Aura in Quary Tile

comming in the mail still:
Size 1, 32" circ knitting needles
Knitpicks East Meets West Red Purse Kit
The pkg from my mother
a MacBook...::swoon::
We are still missing some stuff, but so far:
A 6 qt dutch oven from my dad (asked for one but had forgotten so I was very happy!)
A crock pot from DH (something I had mentioned wanting but never specifically asked for - go DH!)
The promise to get maternity photos taken (with DD of course) without complaint!
Possibly something else to "make up" for all the cr@p I had to deal with this past year
Check from my grandparents
Check from my dad (in transit)
Check from DH's grandma
- We're not sure what we're doing with this money but it will likely go towards something awesome for the family, like a PS3 to go with our flat screen TV
We got a waffle iron from DH's parents as well as a fire extinguisher (really??) and car care kit (odd?).
Great day and we have more to look forward to as well, which is awesome!
DH - immersion blender, pepper grinder, Tiffany's necklace
Other family - full size food processor, silpat, mandoline, juice beauty products, hand made scarf and hat from my grandpa (awesome!), cook books
From DH:
A beautiful set of cloth napkins from etsy
2 pairs PJ pants
Paula Deens Memoirs
Necklace and earring set from etsy
A key ring chap stick holder and 6 hand made chapsticks
tea
a yard of short bread cookies
a few other small things I can't remember
From my parents:
Money
a pasta dinner gift basket
a sweater
all kinds of neat trinkets in my stocking
a gas gift card
Brother and his gf:
a box cheese grater
cast iron skillet
monogrammed travel bag and makeup bag
My ILs want me to pick out any sewing machine that I want.
I got this awesome hand / immersion blender (to make fabulous soups and possibly baby food somewhere down the line):
Soft knitted hat
$100 to Kohls
$25 visa card
VS lotion, etc
Cool Middle Eastern vases from DH
From my parents:
-Graco Angel Care monitor
-Clothes for Sam
From DH's parents:
-New vinyl for the kitchen floor
-Storm door for kitchen
-Ceiling fan for kitchen
-7 BGs
-$25 gift card for Wal Mart
From DH's grandparents:
-Ceiling fans for living room and master bedroom
-3 BGs
-Ruby Tuesday gift card
-$25 American Express gift card
Some other family members got Sam some clothes and gave him some money for his piggy bank. :]
kitchen aid mixer
gravy strainer (fat separater - the best one I've ever seen)
cash (:D)
And this is only the first round...we have more to come because my family celebrates on Jan 1st.
Presto pressure canner/cooker (and funnel and jar lifter)! Reusable produce bags! New lens for my camera!
Can you tell I'm excited?
Posts on cloth trainers/PLing
Shoes, a teddybear and outfit knitting book, micheals GC, pen/pencil set, pj's that I can nurse in ( my mom)
Klean Kanteen, pink thermos wrap for it, teething blink necklace, calendar for my purse (DD/DS)
Sigg ( my grandma)
From DH, GoWearFit and stocking filled w/socks, book about vegetarianism and yoga, Borders GC, super yummy dark chocolate
From Mom, mandoline, Borders GC
From MIL/FIL, really pretty leaf serving bowl
We had a really nice day even though I was completely exhausted. I could hardly sleep last night b/c I couldn't wait to see DS open his gifts.
Thanks to my Dad thinking Obama is going to drive us all into financial failure, I cleaned up this year!
I got...
-Canon 5D
-Canon 40D
-28mm f/1.8 Lens
-24-105mm f/4L IS Lens
-100mm f/2.8 Macro Lens
-580EX II Flash
-A hard case for my cameras
-A soft case for my cameras
-A bunch of CP Cards
-$300 to buy a new sewing machine
-$50 Outback Steakhouse Gift Card (YUUUUM!!!)
-$50 American XPress Gift Card
-$50 Victoria's Secret Gift Card
-A Keurig Coffee Maker with 3 Boxed of Coffee and Chai Tea
-Ed Begley Jr.s Guide to Sustainable Living
-A Wii Game- Guiness Word Records
-3 DVDs
-Kiss My Face Shampoo
Yeah... it was a GREAT year! And it's not over yet! We have another party to go to tomorrow. But this one is more of a family gathering and not so much a gift giving party. We usually each get one big gift and one small one there and then party the rest of the night.
Mandoline= VERY COOL!!!
And I love my SodaStream! Great gift to give (and receive!) for sure.
Do you know which one you're getting? I'm trying to figure out what I want and I'm overwhelmed!
From DH: a new digital camera and an awwweeesssooomme bread machine.
From parents: gift card to JCPenney's, space heater (they accidentally sold ours that we lent them a while back) and some stocking stuffers.
From IL's: money, gift card
From DH:
Two pair of bridgedale wool socks
A lighted vanity mirror
From everyone else:
$125 (MIL and DH's grandparents)
stainless steal water bottle (MIL)
Bag o crap -My grandparents do alot of traveling, so every year we all get a bag of crappy souvenir's from their travels. Wolf magnet from Alaska, book mark from a cruise line, pencil from somewhere...very random yet halirous!
We still have to get together with my parents and brother on Sunday-they are the best gift givers ever!
LOVE my macbook!
I got:
From DH:
A massage (WOOOO!!!!!)
pretty new faux diamond earrings that I hopefully cant lose. (He is not allowed to buy me expensive earrings. I have lost one of every pair he has ever gotten me.)
A pregnancy wedge (LOVE and was going to buy myself)
He made a stand for my exercise/labor ball
From my parents:
Our crib and dresser (I can start doing the nursery now!!)
Maternity clothes
A candle warmer
From the In-laws
A pair of sandals
A pair of slippers
A USF car magnet
From others:
A Burts Bee's gift basket
Some money
We had a wonderful Christmas.
We only do one gift to each other, I got a local made hand blown glass necklace from the local art workhouse.
Ooooh I have that one and I love it! Although I have never used the whisk attachment. But the food processor and little cup are awesome!
I have made out pretty good so far.
DH got me a pair of Victoria Secret Flannel PJ's ( something I will actually wear!) A pair of Dansko clogs for non-work wear, a sweater and long sleeve tee. He also got me a Vera Bradley purse.
My Grandpa gave us each $100 and that got added to what we bought each other.
MIL gave me $20.
FIL gave me a $50 Kohls GC
DH's Grandparents gave me $50, plus lotto scratch offs (I won $2)
We have not exchanged gifts with my parents or siblings yet. Looking forwad to Sunday!
I did get some Burts Bees stuff, an eco-friendly makeup brush set and Lindt truffles from MeganBrian. Love it! My other friend gave me a candle and a book. Another good friend gave me a reusable shopping bag, a beeswax candle, personalize notepad and ornament. Love the EF gifts this year!
New set of dishes
New set of glasses (I was down to only THREE matching!) lol
Scratch-off's from FIL (won a whopping $5!)
Eating Animals
Return to Oz DVD
Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas DVD
Bamboo cutting boards
Handmade scarf, fingertip gloves & hat
Chico messenger & three more reusable bags
Bath stuff from BunnyButt & GudonyaToo
Make-up from Honey Bee Gardens
A very generous amount of cash to buy better insulated windows for our house from the ILs.
From DH:
2 Cadbury chocolate bars (caramel & something else)
1 bag Ghirardelli chocolates
$100 GC to the nail salon/spa I go to with his mom all the time
$100 to Old Navy (WOOOOOOO!)
From MIL:
new handbag! (hand dyed purple leather-type bag, gigantic, with about 800 pockets, will PIP later)
NY Giants onesie set for Max, with matching booties & bib
delicious candles
Bath & Body Works goodies: 2 hand soaps, 2 mini antibacterial gels, hand scrub
$25 to Chilis or On The Border (mmmm Dos XX Fish Tacos...)
Organic/Vegan doggy shampoo (Dexter smells fabulous now!)
From MIL's parents:
Bag O' Chocolate & Cash
From FIL's parents:
Bath & Body Works set of 2 lotions & fuzzy socks + Lunch & Shopping trip
From FIL:
Cash!
From Mom:
my deposit for my Doula
I also had $50 to spend on me, DH, & Max, so I bought myself pretty green organic cotton king sheets, and I don't know what I'm buying for Max yet.
From Gma:
slippers
animated bear
chocolate & nuts assortment from Figi's with stuffed bear
cash for the nursing bras I bought myself
From Brother & SIL:
"Mommy wants CHOCOLATE" Onesie
Hard Rock Cafe Hollywood Onesie
$20
We are into practical gifts for the holidays and I can totally relate to the fire extinguisher and car kit as I have given this exact combo before. They are practical things that many people don't think to get for themselves. We are also into quantity and growing up I received anything and everything for Christmas including shampoo for the year and school supplies.
DH: Garmin
To my DH and I:
Mom: Rotating compost, extension cords, leaf blower, CD player for the kitchen, pistachios, bottle of Absolute, toothpaste, deodorant, alieve, zicam, listerene pocket packs.
Bro and SIL: dryer balls, gingerbread T-shirt, measuring tape, WD40 pen, glass scraper.
Uncle J: painter's tape, Home Depot GC, wallet, table cloth, fannie may chocolate covered pretzels.
Aunt J: indoor/ outdoor thermometer, serving dish that matches our everyday dishes
I am so jealous that you guys are starting a band with all those mandolins!
; )
From DH:
This ring w/ DD's birthstone (Peridot - August): https://www.helzberg.com/nav/i/category/jewelry/rings/diamond+%26+colored+gem/oval+peridot+ring+1669130/r/gemstone+type/peridot/n/4294967176.do?sortby=ourPicks
A cartop carrier for my new (to me) Mazda5
From my dad: a Shark steam mop
From grandparents and parents: money to buy laptop
Quite a haul! I'm totally pleased
lots of chocolate to nibble on
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some shirts (much needed!)
a pair of lounge pants
a picture frame (perfect!)
a food processor (been needing to get one
perfume
make-up
jeans (actually got those weeks ago, but they were for Christmas
laptop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and lots and lots of amazing smiles and laughs and memories
waking up to E running into our room talking faster than I could understand was the very best gift of all
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